End of 2018

Hello everyone,

I apologize for another quiet year as I have been busy getting my life together. Since my last post I have graduated college with my Master’s Degree, interviewed at various firms for my first position in the architecture profession, traveled to various cities, and resettled back in my home city with my parents. Thankfully I have found a position at a very respectable and forward thinking firm which has kept me happy and fully employed for the past 5 months now. However I have missed posting and wish to resume regular posts with artwork and things that I create. I hope you enjoy my more routine posts. I have a sketch to show for while I was away. Please stay tuned for more and thank you again for being here.

Spring

Hello All!

So I have been offline for awhile due to the intensity of events and academic demands this school year. However I am still alive and kicking. This week will be the end of my five year college career with graduation and the beginning of my transition into the architecture and design profession. Obviously I am excited but I am even more excited to get more posted here soon. Please stay tuned for the long run.

 

Pheonix to Flora

This sketch is of a pheonix at the center with flames emanating out from its body. As the flames travel away from it, they turn into leaves that combine to form vines as your eyes leave the page. More thoughtfully, the process of the fire turning to leaves and vice versa is to replicate the natural cycel of life and death, solid to ashes, rebirth.

Reflections

Yesterday I was in Venice, Italy as a part of my study abroad trip and I was walking with my friends to find a gondola ride. While walking through a piazza I heard someone calling in our direction and so I looked to see who it was. A man with beautiful eyes approached me and asked me a question really excited in Italian. I wasn't sure at first so I looked to find my friends for support but they were gone so I turned back to the man who was approaching me. He spoke as if we had met before and when I told him I spoke a little Italian, he asked me if I spoke English in really good English. I said yes afterwhich he told me his name was Steve and explained that he was from Nigeria. Steve came to Italy looking for work and he asked me for money because he was hungry. Since we were in the piazza I told him I could buy him food but I did not have much to give him since I was holding to the little bit of cash I had left for an emergency. He begged me for money to get rice. I was skeptical but I figured if he misused the money it was on him and I really hoped he would get the rice. So I went into a nearby restaurant and bought him a bottle of water and gave him 7 euros.  He asked me a few more questions about myself and was very friendly. I replied by telling him that I was an American student visiting Venice breifly but did not consider myself a tourist. I also suggested that if he had a problem finding a job maybe that it was a language barrier and that maybe he should practice his italian more. I also suggested maybe he make friends and move try finding housing with a roommate or two to split the cost of resources but ultimately I did not think Venice was the best place for him and suggested he try moving to a different city. After a few more minutes of talking I told Steve that I really had to go and that I wished him the best of luck. We parted with a warm handshake and as I walked away he told me I was blessed and said we are brothers in a very happy voice.

In hindsight I don't know if any of my advice was sound given this guy was a refugee. I do wonder how much more I could have helped him since he had a phone. Also in a city like Venice with the large amount of tourists swarming that city for a large part of the year it was difficult to see how he could not find a job. Either way I hope he finds peace of mind, because that is the goal in life right? This experience will be something I never forget.

Thoughts

Chase your dreams for they may be your only truth in an existence with the only absolutes being birth and death. Life is the achievement. 

Cherish the freedom of thought because that is the only real freedom you may ever have

More pictures to come please stay tuned if you are...

 

Inspirational Thoughts

So I would like to open my post this week with a quote from a TV show called 'Being Mary Jane'. 

"Don't Judge Someone Just Because They Sin Differently Than You"

This quote is inspiring to me because it reminds me of the diversity and differences in human thought. Just like the Greeks birthed democracy and the persians strong concepts of authority and central power, both of which parallel in western society today. This week I had a falling out with one of my friends and I am saddened by our inability to see eye to eye right now. But as a human being I respect her right to be different and to have her own opinion. I mean that is what it means to be American right? To respect someone that you don't agree with simply because THEY HAVE AN OPINION and because they are your fellow human, despite their backgrounds, their flaws, their ethnicity and tradiitons because that is what acceptance should be? So Don't Judge Someone Just Because They Sin Differently Than You because no one is without flaws or mistakes. Thank you Gabrielle Union for producing a thought invoking show and sharing your art with the world. 

Newbie

Alright so I've never run a blog before but here it goes. Welcome to everyone who is reading this to Zeke's Eclipse. This space will be a platform for me to share my artwork, philosophical thoughts, and designs with you and hopefully recieve feedback as well. I will try to remain consistant and make my posts relevant.